Morgane Moncomble and the proof by 4 – L’Express

End of season and full house for Morgane Moncomble with her tetralogy Seasons started on September 20, 2023 with An autumn to forgive you and completed on June 19 with A summer to find you againPassing by A winter to resist you (January 3) and A spring to succumb to you (March 20), the sections therefore being published (by Hugo Roman) at the rate of one every three months approximately. And it’s as simple as a quarter… here they are all placed in our Top 20, totaling to date, according to Edistat, some 450,000 copies sold.

28-year-old novelist and French queen of the new romance, Morgane Moncomble found the right martingale by proposing four variants around a well-established thread, the ultimate reunion of two beings supposed to hate each other. After reconciling a lawyer and her former assailant, she brought together a rising star of figure skating and her “detestable” new partner, then a broke florist and a billionaire playboy, and, finally, an eternal romantic and her childhood sweetheart.

One question remains: will Morgane Moncomble have the same longevity as MC Beaton, the queen of cozy crimeScottish this one, who published until her death, at the age of 83, on December 30, 2019 at the end of a prolific career? The author of the series of detective novels Agatha Raisin And Hamish Macbeth, international bestsellers, as well as series on the English Regency such as Debutante Seasonthus makes Albin Michel’s cabbage fat, who systematically places the publications of the British in the ranking of our best sellers. This time, it is volume 35 (!) of the series Agatha Raisin investigates, The time of the crime.

There is also something new on the testing side. While Félicien Faury climbs to 7th place with Ordinary Voters: An Investigation into the Normalization of the Far Right (Threshold), appears, in 17th place, the work of the psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Robert Neuburger, Writing his mother. In search of lost love (Payot). The author of The art of guiltr (Payot 2008) focuses on these writers who tried to survive a lack of maternal love. Citing Annie Ernaux, Nancy Huston, Delphine le Vigan, Marguerite Duras, Pascal Quignard, Hervé Bazin, Simenon, Colette, Albert Cohen, Romain Gary, Saint-Exupéry, Amélie Nothomb and Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, he explains how writing was a lifeline for them.